New Doors Open For U.S. Certified Angus Beef In Canada WOOSTER, Ohio Certi fied Angus Beef (CAB) LLC, a subsidiary of the American Angus Association, recently li censed plants for both beef har vest and fabrication to produce Certified Angus Beef™ (CAB) product in Canada, according to company president Jim Riemann. He cited growing demand and licensee interest on both sides of the border. Canadian demand has long been a key to the success of CAB’s international division, and licensees in Canada last year sold 15 million pounds of Certified Angus Beef™ product, ranking second only to Japan in overall sales. Moreover, many Canadian foodservice and retail licensees say they could double sales if this world-leading beef brand were processed in Canada. It’s already produced there but tra ditionally Canadian Angus-type carcasses were shipped to U.S. locations for U.S. Department of Agriculture grading and certifi cation as CAB product. Then, some of those millions of pounds of branded CAB product have been exported and trucked back to Canada along with mostly U.S.-produced product. Not only has this been inefficient for packers, it has also increased the number of trucks bringing Canadian beef into the U.S. often a point of contention with Northern U.S. producers. Some processing firms in Canada had been identifying Angus and Angus-type cattle for CAB for some time, Riemann explains. These and additional firms representing more than 65 percent of Canadian slaughter capacity have expressed a strong interest in being able to fabricate CAB products in their Canadian plants. The American Angus Associ ation and CAB boards of produ cer-directors last fall voted for exploring these greater efficien cies in Canadian licensing. The demand for Certified Angus Beer - product has outstripped available supplies for most of CAB’s 22-year history. Last year, the CAB supply de velopment effort shifted into high gear, launching a feedlot li censing program that now has 50 feedlots in 14 states, with 600,000-head current capacity. Meanwhile, producer premiums for achieving CAB acceptance continue to rise, and the genetic tools to get there are becoming sharper and sharper. The move to expand in Canada should help ensure a continued robust growth in demand for the jump-started supply, and that is a key to garnering producer premiums as a reward for hitting the CAB target. This new opportunity is expected to increase demand on both sides of the border for See Lancaster Panning CovCam Featured on altavista.com as Cam-Of the Day Thursday, Sept. 14 Visit our Website at www.lancasterfarming.com Angus cattle with the genetics to hit that target. Cattle Availability The total Canadian beef herd is about 10 percent of the U.S. beef herd, and about 15 percent of the Canadian herd is Angus or Angus-type. Some 400,000 of Canada’s 2.7 million annual fed beef slaughter could meet the basic live specifications for Cer tified Angus Beer" product. But since there is no CAB program in Canada, many of those cattle had been entering the U.S. If 15 percent of carcasses from this black-hided subset of cattle meet specifications for CAB, about 7.3 million pounds per year of CAB products would be produced by the Alberta plants. Canadian retail and foodservice licensees currently market a little over 15 million pounds of CAB products yearly. By comparison, the overall CAB program markets about 570 mil lion pounds of products yearly. The single largest CAB retail licensee north of the border, Overwaitea Stores (81 locations and growing across western Canada) plans to more than double sales if the CAB product can be of Canadian origin. With the better service af forded by locally licensed plants, other Canadian retail and food service licensees expressed simi lar interest. Canadian demand for locally-produced CAB prod uct is expected to cover the in creased supply. These licensees tend to prefer marketing Cana dian-produced beef without the import documentation and cur rency value differences. Yet they understand that the Canadian produced supply would not be adequate to meet their needs and they would continue buying U.S.-produced CAB products as demand grows. “There is a perceived differ ence in the eyes of some of our Canadian customers that U.S. beef is somehow different and poorer than Canadian beef,” says Danny Ransom, Intercity Packers, Vancouver, British Co lumbia. “There are also custom ers who won’t buy Certified Angus Beer - because it is not Canadian. “Although we know that North American beef produc tion is borderless, this change will give our customers the option of buying a great product Certified Angus Beef™ from their preferred country of origin,” Ransom explains. “This change will also help in the over all availability of Certified Angus Beer", which is very posi tive.” The amount of U.S-produced product shipped to Canada would be affected very little, but has much potential for growth, says Riemann. In the near term, there are several positive aspects that should reduce both the import of Angus-type live cattle and curtail the practice of ship ping Angus-type carcasses into the U.S. for grading and certifi cation for CAB. Maintaining Integrity CAB is coordinating with the Canadian Beef Grading Agency (CBGA) the development of procedures to work with packers for producing and protecting the integrity of branded products from steer and heifer carcasses. buy sciirrnAiH it ur. FARM EQUIPMENT IH 1086 CAH. IH 1066 cab. IH 3288 CAH. IH 460 w/FH. Farmall M. 570-966-3483 Call us for latest combine purchases. As you read this we will have several ' new purchases 8< trade ins not advertised. IH, Gleaner, & JD heads available. Make us your “head connection." Zeis loft Eq., Bloomsburg, PA 800-919-3322. NH Barrel Spreader Mdl # 663, Right Hand Load. 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Call 717-949-3769 7:30-11:30 AM prevented licensing Canadian beef processing and fabrication plants. “Reporting systems, have now been written to satisfy the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as well as CBGA, and labeling and product integrity details have been ironed out,” he says. The CAB feeder-packer rela tions division licenses North American feedlots to improve sourcing of not just black-hided, but true Angus-type cattle for CAB. For more information, con tact the Manhattan, Kan., office at (785) 539-0123. Farmall Super A w/plow, disc, blade, flail mower, $3OOO obo.Call 717-687-6269 New Idea 4 row narrow combine or snapper head & snapper head adapter with screens, good condi tion. 717-933-8079. Brand new manifolds for tractors, 1930-1975. 507-433-0073 anytime. Brillion S-tme basket har row, 12', 3pt, gauge wheels, like new. Priced to sell! 610-298-2011 (2) Bulk steel storage tanks, approx. 12'Dx20'H, fair to good cond., must remove, best offer. 570/ 457-1661,800/825-1661. 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